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From New York's impious Daily News:

BIG 4 FAIL TO DISAGREE

New Postman

How do you get to be publisher of one of America's great newspapers? If you ask the New York Times's Arthur Hays Sulzberger, he frequently answers, "Do as I did, marry the boss's daughter."

Last week wealthy Eugene Meyer, who took over the Washington Post in 1933 and tripled its circulation by making it the best paper in the capital, stepped out to spend all his time as president of the International Bank. His successor: his son-in-law.

People who know Philip L. Graham, 30, think the boss's daughter married well. As a student at the University of Florida, intelligent, easygoing Phil Graham weathered a depression year by working as a Miami milkman. In 1939 he was graduated from Harvard Law School, where he edited the Law Review. Then he became a law secretary, first to Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed, then to Justice Felix Frankfurter (a close friend of Meyer's). He worked briefly for the Office of Emergency Management. In 1942 Graham entered the Army Air Forces as a private, came out a major in Intelligence on General George C. Kenney's staff.

New Publisher Graham does not expect to change the Post much. The way to have a good editorial page, he feels, is to have men writing it who know how to write. Of his own plans, Graham grins, says, "They are only the plans which any semi-intelligent man would have for a paper."